Crossword for Mon, 12/Apr/2021

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Across
1: Writing material on usury: Papacy held it back (7)

4: Identified slugger around noon (7)

8: It's big where some Ambassadors are at? (5)

9: Android's gold love-apple close to Krypton (9)

10: Dad takes leading role a step beyond (7)

12: Cuts back small curls (7)

13: Oddly corny spot in tomb (5)

14: Huge military display made a large, indelible mark. (3, 6)

17: Strangely enough, cat's lease keeps getting bigger (9)

19: Water plants used in informal Gaelic gardens (5)

21: Empty country with iron or wood (7)

24: Mortified humans - fifty per cent felt great pity (7)

26: Turn in diet at night (9)

27: Patchy trim for lace top is velvety (5)

28: Releases transposed shops (7)

29: Laid up, Emma joins senior exercise club and complains loudly (7)
Down
1: French singer eats bit of leftover rice dish (5)

2: Depict harbor town fish (7)

3: Three kernels of copper-yellow grain (3)

4: Small pieces of choral works missing tenor part (5)

5: Regretted backing up grasping tip of massive object (5)

6: Try to seduce (7)

7: Perhaps the sound of the beach is really rock? (9)

9: Circus performer in a European big top (7)

11: Digs for leads in homicide of the elderly lady (5)

13: Increase in force may finish in soccer riot (9)

15: Girl hangs around artists' quarter for something to get tanked with? (7)

16: Warning! The French return to take up weapons.(5)

18: One who impersonates a policeman giving hip dude a leading question.(7)

20: American boxer entering kind of club in Middle East region (7)

22: In confusion of duel, take first exit to escape. (5)

23: Dispatches last bits following Saturday (5)

25: Extinct birds accomplish return of earth (5)

27: Plan to return with woman (3)




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